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Old 12-27-2009, 12:00 AM   #1
nahom2112
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Hide hostname in url


Hello experts,
Please let me know how to set httpd.conf to hide hostname in a url that's displayed on the address bar

My url is http://ncscould-n1/vm1/hw.html

Can I hide ncscould-n1.

thanx a lot
 
Old 12-27-2009, 01:02 AM   #2
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If you hide the hostname, how will an application determine which computer on the network to fetch the html file from? Could you be more specific?
 
Old 12-27-2009, 07:51 AM   #3
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Hi,
What I meant is I don't want to display the real hostname, for security reasons. I tried .htaccess, couldn't get it workin, not experienced with apache.
 
Old 12-27-2009, 08:28 AM   #4
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What security reason if you don't mind? How does not knowing the hostname provide security? If I were you I'd put a firewalled proxy server in the middle.
 
Old 12-27-2009, 06:48 PM   #5
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Ok I'll elaborate :
I've a web server ncsweb, uses proxy config to call http://ncscloud-n1:80/vm1/hw.html.

Contents of ncscloud-n1:80/vm1/hw.html:
<html>
<body>
<h1>FIRST NODE HELLO WORLD</h1>
<a href="http://ychcloud-n1.ych.com/vm1/hw2.html">y3tech</a>
</body>
</html>

Contents of ncscloud-n1:80/vm1/hw2.html:
<html>
<body>
<h1>FIRST NODE HELLO WORLD Y3TECHNOLOGIES</h1>
<a href="http://ychcloud-n1.ych.com/vm1/hw.html"> back</a>
</body>
</html>



When I click on y3tech, It opens hw2.html. In the address bar I see http://ychcloud-n1.ych.com/vm1/hw2.html. How do I mask the url without making any changes to html code
 
  


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